CPS provides the nexus between planetary science and extra-solar
planetology in which astronomers, cosmochemists, planetary
scientists, and astrobiologists come to understand the origin and
evolution of other worlds, investigate the conditions that favored
the rise of life on Earth, and explore other habitable zones.

CESR serves as a campus-wide consortium on global change and its
regional environmental impacts. CESR faculty use observational,
theoretical, numerical, and laboratory studies to investigate the
fluid envelope of the Earth and its interaction with the land surface
underneath and the rarefied interplanetary medium above, as well as
the biota within.

SPC researchers the solar wind and the magnetospheres, ionospheres
and atmospheres of the Earth and planets through simulations,
planetary plasma physics and space physics. SPC faculty are active in
the development of technology for space research, data management and
education and the Center supports NASA's Planetary Data System.